Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-03
~Yerbum Sat ."''vestigia EetrOrsum.
THE BEAzLEY BRIDGE roET.
"a Rose by any other name
Would smell as sweet.

H.. ~
cognomens one of your correspon-
dents has been accustomed to air his
opinions in prose and verse Heaven
save the mark9 on the subject OF
the Bay Shore Road. As "Nestigia"
(sic) he attempted to ridicule the
project, when the Local Improve
ment Association first took hold of
it: he predicted that it would never
be constructed, he abused the conn
ty commissioner for building the
bridge over Back Greek; he asserted
that frogs and lizards, mud turtles
and chills and feyers were the only
objects of interest along the line of
the road: he has lampooned itand its
projectors in wretched doggerel,
until YOUR columns were closed to
his silly illusions; and now that the
road has triumphed over all obsta-
Giles and has 3een finished, he at
tempts, over the signature of Yer
bun Sat, in your paper of last even
ing, to "d-n it with faint praise. +"
He complains that his feet refused
to take hold of the shells. TeStiga
should take off his boots; then per-
haps with the help of his toes and a
prehensite tail he might "take hold
among the boughs of the trees that
skirt the road Verbtm SIT! As to
the road, Mr.. Editor, the work
which the Improvement Association
undertook, is finished. They pro-
posed to get the two creeks bridged;
to acquire for the county the right
of way; to grade, grub and shape up
the whole line of the road between
the creeks; and to shell it wherever
it needed Smelling. All this they
have done and more. They have
secured for the county the right of
way on the Horn Point side of Back
Creek and have shclled it too; and
they have spent some money at Bay
Ridge property in making the road
passablc there. AS to the shells,
they are of the full width and depth
found best on our county roads;
and If the eighteen or twenty teams
that pass over the road nearly every
afternoon furnish any indication of
the enjoyment which the drive
affords to our citizens, it would
seem that its condition can hardly
be so miserable" as the perspiring
Verbum found it to his encountered
feet on the hot day he speaks of.
No doubt after use has mashed the,
shells down and the weather is cool-
e., Verbum will find it as pleasant
daily walk as many ladies and sick
children find it now a daily drive.
But your correspondent need not
trouble himself at this late day, with
untime'y zeal about invoking more
subscriptions for the road; all that
has been attended to by others,
whilst Ferbum was abusing the whole
project. If he wants to subscribe
himself, perhaps the lamp might
hold out to burn, even for him,
while he gets out his pocket book;
but he is much more likely to treat
us to another dose of advice-that
comes so cheap! There is one thing
about the road, Mr.. Editor, which
the Association has sought to &C
complish but so far without success,
and that is to induce the Bay Ridge
Company to shell their part of the
road, that is to say the road through
their property to the east of Lake
Ogleton. The Company promised
to do it and even now they promise
to do it in the Fall, when they hope
to have the money to spare. That
part of the road was never under
taken by the Association and at
present til the only part that mars
the pleasant half hours drive from
Annapolis to Bay Ridge.
MPROVFMENT